Title Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Published CA : University of California Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma; 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma; 3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity; 4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity; 5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies; 6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama; Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z Summary In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"--And on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the Analysis anthology anthropology case studies collective identity collective understandings constructivist approach cultural trauma emotional experiences making meaning nazi holocaust nonfiction political theory september 11 slavery social cultural social dialogue social groups social interactions social narratives social responsibility sociologists sociology textbooks theoretical framework theoretical perspective trauma united states Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social problems -- Psychological aspects Psychic trauma -- Social aspects Crises -- Psychological aspects Change (Psychology) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Change (Psychology) Crises -- Psychological aspects Psychic trauma -- Social aspects Social problems -- Psychological aspects Trauma's (psychologie) Crises. Sociale problemen. Psychologische aspecten. Traumatisme psychique. Traumatisme. Sociologie. Changement (Psychologie) Problèmes sociaux. Identité collective. Aspect social. Form Electronic book Author Eyerman, Ron Giesen, Bernard Smelser, Neil J Sztompka, Piotr ISBN 9780520936768 0520936760 128276280X 9781282762800 9786612762802 6612762802

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